So have I yours. You blatantly mis-quoted me.
Fortunately I'm not writing for your benefit. I wonder why I bothered responding.
You really do sound like an advert, despite whole threads here about how bad Romainians are. You're welcome to them, frankly you can keep them.
I seriously wonder about someone who claims to have seen over a 1000 WG's, which at the prices you claim to have been paying amounts to not much short of £100,000 if not more. The persona you are projecting doesn't fit. Supposing what you are saying could be true, how representative could you be compared with someone who has spent just a few percent of that amount? My guess is the latter is more typical of the average reader on here, so in fact it's your so-called experience that is unrepresentative in this case. Apart from which you claim to have found owo virtually non-existent in the 90's. That is simply not true, and to have such limited experience you must have been closeted somewhere, which I seriously doubt.
I rounded your experience down. If someone says they have little experience of something they often mean, in reality, none at all. Hardly a blatant misquote, especially when the posts are next to each other in the same thread, so anyone reading it can quite easily see if there is a material difference.
You replied to my post, quoting me, so it does appear that you were in fact writing for my benefit.
I've posted before on this forum that in general I allow myself to spend on punting what it would cost me to lease a new BMW or Mercedes and that I set myself personal goals and give myself "pocket money" to spend on anything - often punting - if I achieve them. I've always been able to afford that - I only began punting when I had the disposable income to do so without it hurting me financially. Whether you choose to believe my punting record or not is not something I can change, or am willing to set out to change. However, I have at least posted here for a couple of years on the subject, including a lot of background information (which I believe is consistent with what I've posted in this thread), and some reviews.
As you did little or no punting in the 90s you don't know if OWO was commonplace or not. In fact like DFK and CIM it became much more common with the Internet, which showed up what different WGs offered.